Hi, just installed v15 (build 10134415) on Ubuntu 16.04 in a headless setup that has no Internet. There is a working winXP V-Machine (dual boot) in the win8.1-partition but when I select "Open a Virtual machine," it allows me to select winxp.vmx but does not put it in the list on the left. Nor does it open it.

If I boot to win8.1 and run VMWare there, I can open that winxp.vmx fine. Is there something extra I need to do to make this work under Ubuntu? I only need it, maybe twice a year and right now is one of those times. {grin} It has some 16-bit CNC-Milling machine software that only runs under XP and win8.1 refuses to run it.

Internet connection is not required to run the Win XP. Try this and let me know the status. Instead of clicking "Open a virtual machine" , just open the .vmx directly with the WS. (Go to the location where it is stored and open it).

Hi, thanks for the reply and suggestions. OK, we are getting somewhere. The installer had not registered the .vmx to be launched with Player. I assigned that to be the default program to auto-launch. I then tried to launch the .vmx directly as you suggested and got an error about "unable to create ~/.vmware" folder. I ignored that and clicked OK.

I then got an error about "zero swap -- needs 256MB..." which is valid as I have an SSD in the PC and recommendations are to drop the swap to save wear and tear on the SSD wear-life. So, there is no swap partition and I clicked OK.

The upshot is that the XP did eventually launch and seems to be OK so at least I can get it to run the 16-bit stuff.

But, not surprisingly it "forgets" settings most probably because of the lack of access to the ~/.vmware folder folder. The folder exists but is locked and my guess is that the installer created it as root. I will try changing ownership and see if that frees up that issue.